 Professor Pink | Mrs. Bruce Wayne | I'm on a Goat | Glitterpuff | Dumbledore's Defense Squad | BHB
SPOILER!!: bit o'catchup Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19  On a normal day, Claudine would have brought out her sketchpad to pass the time between now and when the lesson began. Today though? She was too distracted by the cold to bother. Her book bag was on the table and her arms were still crossed over her chest, her fingers tucked under her armpits. She wasn’t paying attention to anything in particular, just the students coming in. Her one and only girl that she had chosen to be her friend came in. Claudine was pleased to see her, she really was but her face might have told a different story. “You alright?’’ she asked. She was used to seeing Bernie being upbeat and this quiet, in check Bernie slightly threw her off.
Seeing that Ayana was going to close, Claudine removed her hands from under her pits to bet her materials out of her bag. She was prepared for horrible misunderstandings on her part to occur during the lessons. She just felt dizzy (figuratively speaking) when more numbers appeared on the board. SO MANY NUMBERS. She threw Bernie a helpless look before taking her quill and getting to work:
“Divisions are the worst of me,’’ the Snakette whispered to her friend. “I guessed some of these…” Just… no one tell the professor.
Bernie knew better than to talk once the lesson had started, particularly a lesson in which she needed to pay close attention. But once the maths was handed out and they were left to hurry through their calculations, Bernie felt like she could let out her breath a little.
"'M alright," she muttered to Claudine, hurrying to start her calculations because she knew she was slow at multiplication and she liked to double-check her work before handing it in. This part of the class she liked, because it reminded her of Muggle school, and Bernie had been pretty good at Muggle school.
1. 1 + 6 = 7
2. 7 + 17 = 24
3. 25 - 7 = 18
4. 156 - 82 = 74
5. 4 * 7 = 28
7. 6 * 12 = 72
8. 13 * 15 = ? .... 195
9. 135 ÷ 9 = 15
10. 144 ÷ 12 = ?
11. 471 ÷ 3 = ?
She nodded at her friend's admission about division just as the professor announced time was up. "I didn't even finish mine!" Dangit! So um, mechanical calculators... how did they come to be???
"They came to be because... people needed to do large sums? It probably had something to do with trade, and markets, and people needing to calculate the cost and amount of items they were selling...?" Right? What did wizards sell at ancient markets? Magic carpets? Bernie cracked a small grin to herself at these thoughts.
__________________
yeah, there's one thing about me that you should know________________________________
__________________________________________that I can't help from speaking my mind |